Mining Incidents

Eaton Mtn Quarry: 23 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

AAPCO · Surface
Controlled by Ronald Britt Payton
Little Rock, Garland County, AR  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0300970

Eaton Mtn Quarry has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
23
citations
2
significant & substantial
$2,492
proposed penalties
$2,492
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
31
inspections on record
310
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 310 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Eaton Mtn Quarry has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
23 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-13.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
8.7%
significant & substantial
13.0%
high negligence or reckless
8.7%
reasonably likely or greater
30.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 13.0% low, 73.9% moderate, 13.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2021-10-25, 4 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg6
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (8)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2021-10-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2021-10-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2010-10-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Operator, Churn
2010-10-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-10-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Blaster, Powder Gang
2009-09-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.18 0.83 Diamond Drill Operator
2009-09-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.39 0.38 Utility Man
2009-09-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Saint-Gobain Abrasives Inc 1982 to 2026
  2. AAPCO 2026 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 1
2023 3
2022 3
2021 3
2020 3
2019 3
2018 3
2017 3
2016 3
2015 4
2014 3
2013 3
2012 3
2011 4
2010 4
2009 3
2008 3
2007 2
2006 2
2005 2
2004 2
2003 2
2002 2
2001 2
2000 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Eaton Mtn Quarry sits in Garland County, Arkansas, where the Census mining category is 0.5% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Garland County, Arkansas · Population 100,062
0.5%
Mining share of county employment
$55,409
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2026 Q2 8 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 6 1 0 166666.7
2025 Q4 60 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q3 60 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,034 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 989 1 0 1011.1
2022 Q4 932 0 0 0.0
Show 87 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q3 1,093 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,005 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,051 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 808 1 0 1237.6
2021 Q3 1,005 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 669 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 642 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 534 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 527 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 465 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 50 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 478 1 0 2092.1
2019 Q3 746 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 493 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 494 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 571 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 481 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 481 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 612 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 963 1 0 1038.4
2017 Q3 640 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 997 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 975 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 226 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,008 2 0 1984.1
2015 Q3 1,549 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,079 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 587 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 397 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 512 1 0 1953.1
2014 Q2 490 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 245 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 296 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 832 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 517 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 761 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 415 2 1 4819.3
2012 Q3 632 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 556 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 809 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 678 2 0 2949.9
2011 Q3 968 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 650 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1,030 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 743 2 0 2691.8
2010 Q3 1,334 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 889 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 930 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 876 3 1 3424.7
2009 Q3 760 1 0 1315.8
2009 Q2 1,019 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 958 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,263 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 476 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 998 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 303 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 677 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 311 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 496 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 257 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 246 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 485 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 336 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 534 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 446 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 613 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 452 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 574 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 812 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 579 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 751 1 0 1331.6
2003 Q4 557 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 940 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 485 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 513 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 351 2 0 5698.0
2002 Q3 830 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 605 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 437 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 296 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 704 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 617 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 259 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 311 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 390 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 378 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 369 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.